Read this book. I've got ten years as a white teacher in South Bronx, Harlem, Washington Heights. Great book. Trust me.

For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education (Race, Education, and Democracy) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0807028029/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_IRI7BbX2GMJ3C

Unionization has gone up and down in a variety of industries. While it's true that the majority of workers have never been unionized, 50 years ago a third of US workers were unionized. Today it's 10%. That change is due to decades of lobbying by business interests against unions. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/02/23/385843576/50-years-of-shrinking-union-membership-in-one-map https://www.bls.gov/spotlight/2016/union-membership-in-the-united-states/home.htm

I still take strong issue with you continuing to refer to unions vs lack of unions as "natural" and "unnatural." I'm a biologist and there's nothing less natural about unions than corporations or markets. These are all human creations. We use our minds to shape the world and our interactions with each other and none of our actions are any more or less natural.

Lastly, what is the point of an "efficient" market if it gives us unequal societies where some people have to live on the street or work 3 jobs while a small percentage of people accrue laughable amounts of money. Is that market beautiful? Is it perfect? Is it natural?

Slightly related...

Even the smallest interventions improves black kids' outcomes. Researchers had a group of students talk about how they felt anxious about not fitting in their first year of college. It was like an hour long intervention.

White kids did not improve to the control group. Black kids did, considerably and their academic performance matched those of white kids. I think it improved their GPA by .2.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/50420133_A_Brief_Social-Belonging_Intervention_Improves_Academic_and_Health_Outcomes_of_Minority_Students

=D Minorities are just insecure and have a lot of stigma and shit to deal with!

As someone who has a BA and an MFA and a teaching degree but spends a lot of his time working with his hands (I teach art in a public school), I found this book to be of great value.

There are a lot of dimensions to this dilemma: parental disapproval, the student debt trap, societal status, looming automation, etc. It's easy to lose sight of the fact that there's an important spiritual component to this issue too. A path to connection with the soul can be found through working with your hands. I've found that to be true, and quite profoundly meaningful in my life. I spent a lot of time wrestling with whether I had disappointed family expectations that I ought to have a "professional career" (I come from a family with a lot of lawyers, but there's also a musician in the flock), a self-imposed debate that lasted decades. I've come to some semblance of peace about it.

I also enjoy pointing out to the overly anxious parents in my very progressive, highly affluent school district that my plumber makes more money than I do.

It is great that you are interested in building your skills and seeking educational challenges. Free Code Camp and Code Academy are two examples of free online training in different coding languages.

There is something to be said about learning and growing alongside peers, even when your skills and interests differ. If your desire to get out of your current school is about more than academics (such as, challenging peer interactions, feeling unsafe), then so hope you engage with a trusted adult to discuss your options.

In the US, there are some middle college programs that allow students to finish secondary/high school while earning college credit at a community college. These programs are a great fit for students with skills to be somewhat academically independent.

Trash opinion piece based on non-evidence based question or answer. Success is a philosophy question. In terms of income GPA does in fact impact the person's earning potential. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140402004507-17970806-your-gpa-could-impact-your-income

I wish these articles were never written. This does nothing but undermined the idea of excelling in academics. I am a straight A student and I got nothing but flack from fellow students and business people who were insecure that they rather hire straight C students.

I don't make a lot of money but I enjoy my life and my family and I am glad I got good grades.

That looks like an idiom to me, and a quick google search reveals that to be the case. Wikiquotes provides the following explanation:

> Oont ke Muh mein Jeera. (Hindi)
> * Literal: A (small) cumin seed in a camel's mouth.
> * Translation: Too small an amount for a very large need.
> * Malayalam equivalent: Aana Vayil Ambazhanga (a small fruit in an elephant's mouth).

It seems equivalent to "a drop in the ocean," in english.

Mindset by Carol Dweck is what I'm currently reading, and it's changing my life. I now understand why I used to be such a slacker of a student! Among the shocking revelations: praising students' ability and intelligence destroys their resilience and makes them worse students. The first three chapters and the one for parents and teachers are must read.

Choosing not to restrain myself here because of the perceived antagonism and word confusion. Also, I like commas.

Source: Synonyms 1. supplier, originator. 3. authority, reference.

Primary Source:"A primary source is the original writings of a person whose thinking, investigation, discovery, life, or imagination is the basis for the material ... information or original data on a topic."

Yes, his choice of word was incorrect, and this is Sparta... er, Reddit, so good job on you for pointing it out. However, you come across as misunderstanding the concept of a primary source, so please let me point out that: The man's "sources" or credentials are meant to (and I would say DO) establish himself as a credible "primary source" on the topic he wrote about.

Maybe you didn't know what a primary source is or missed it in his reply to you. Either way, luckily, his blog post is not receiving a grade he needs in order to graduate, AND, now, when one of your Profs tells the class to cite primary sources in the next paper, you'll notice and know what he means. (Look for it to come up in History classes a bit.)

Here's a quick re-design. Does anyone know how to make the bars thicker in google docs?

I just got on reddit to post the video about Khan Academy. I searched to make sure it wasn't already here and there it is! I knew it was too good to go unnoticed. Thanks!

There doesn't seem to be much evidence for the mbti either, which makes sense given its history. Though, I think it may be helpful in just generally getting people to realize that people have different preferences (but the types and the letters are probably not the most salient preferences). Read more:

http://www.vox.com/2014/7/15/5881947/myers-briggs-personality-test-meaningless https://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2013/mar/19/myers-briggs-test-unscientific

The results are right on the khan academy website, graphs and all. Take at least a minute of research before thinking you know what you're talking about.

I'll just leave this here:

http://blog.ted.com/2010/05/24/bring_on_the_re/

EDIT: whoops, looking for the following talk, not that the aforementioned isn't good too.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html

If you want to see a work-in-progress trailer. Film is still in post production with many more hurdles to jump but just looking to build a base and start spreading the message.

I'm hesitant to disagree with you...I think temperament and personality are fairly ingrained at that point, but I think there are definitely areas where social skills could be taught or enhanced. MANY students that age don't realize consequences of their actions, how to be assertive when necessary, or how to speak without causing needless confrontation. "The Feeling Good Handbook" has many great suggestions in regard to this last part.

Also, I believe the r/seddit community would disagree on social skills being unchangeable. Of course, some of the people there are about being fake to get some action, but others are truly focused on person betterment.

Because a video can also provide text for students to read. Students can learn by watching, listening, or reading through a video. It covers more bases, provided the video is well done.

I suggest looking up Khan Academy. edit: look at the practice part for a graphic organizer of how elements of a subject relate to each other. It can be a good resource.

Im not saying videos are the perfect solution. But they can work, and after seeing some of the horrible out-dated texts that schools have, they can be a free improvement. I also know a few students who simply hate reading, and would much rather watch a video. This might be a solution that could work for them. No guarantees when teaching, but as a teacher, its nice to have options to reach more of the students.

Rather than measuring students on how well they can regurgitate memorized data, how about crediting them for actual accomplishments, including those which are extracurricular. Be supportive of students pursuing knowledge in areas they are interested in. Tools like this would be a start.

All things being equal, African Americans can perform well. But notice how I said equal.

You have this: https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/j/jencks-gap.html

But you can't really prove 'less' of an education. But you can't deny that scarce resources doesn't have an effect.

Teachers have a small range of affect on student test scores:

http://www.fairtest.org/teacher-evaluation-fact-sheet-2014

So we first have to prove school has something to do with how well you do in school.

So did you see the TED talk on this? There is a lot more to the project than a list of videos. Teachers follow statistics to know what to spend more time on, the point and achievement system attempts to tap into gaming addictions (and having done the whole program I can say it mostly works), and the idea of mastering a topic by answer ten questions correctly in a row before moving on is absolutely not being implemented in modern schooling, but should be. The reason it is not, is because institutions are impatient and want to push students along at the cost of them falling behind later.

I think that the biggest decider of party for most young people is the party of education, which of course Elizabeth Warren is on, and Cory Booker too. Also, unions and educational unions specifically counteract hyper-inequality, a serious problem in our society today, maybe one of the biggest, if Stiglitz is to be believed. One thing hyper-inequality facilitates is the ability for super-billionaire oligarchs to wage-oppress entire industries, they can even accomplish this in Silicon Valley, in Engineering, and in Holleywood (CGI), but educators and nurses and other weakly organized populations are even easier. There is a reason there is a direct positive-correlation between degree of organization in an industry and wage-growth relative to inflation.

Not saying I disagree, and full disclosure, Im not an educator, just a random redditor that ended up in this sub, but I would mention:

Scratch from MIT uses drag and drop code blocks:

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/301755047/editor/

I believes its free to use, and can be used to make pretty complicated stuff. certainly its complex enough for teaching the basics.

Heres the page for educators:

https://scratch.mit.edu/educators

Really sticky subject right now. Especially since while we're figuring out better ways to test students, we rely on archaic ways to test teachers. A colleague is actually doing her ME study on this topic - if any teachers want to participate here's her survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/EDPS722

Grades used to mean something.

They meant less so we needed to add standardized testing.

Then we got “grade inflation”.

I had good grades in high school then college kicked my butt.

Do you want to look at http://www.edx.org or http://www.coursera.org and try a class you are interested in (they are mostly free, but provide no official credit - but they can help you learn)

Don't be a proofreader. Read for a specific purpose, i.e. support for thesis.

Also, my biggest hurdle is the boredom from grading the same shit over and over. I've found that using apps like FocusBooster help a ton.

Exactly. Charters have a more privileged group (fewer minorities, fewer impoverished students, few special needs students if any) in them than public schools do but they still perform worse than public schools do.

This seems more like an issue of funding inequality and No Child Left Behind.

But one of the traits of multiplication is that it's commutative, so if the kid wrote 5 x 3 = 5 + 5 + 5 = 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 would you mark him wrong for that? The strategy since it seems really important to you is the kid manipulated the problem so that it works and is easier for him (maybe because they like counting by fives better than threes or because they were too lazy to write out 3 five times.) I'm up to Linear Algebra right now and every math teacher I've ever had has encouraged us to do manipulate problems to make them easier.

Example: You know why when I do double/triple integrals I frequently write out multiple orders of integration? Because most often the first way doesn't look to be the simplest.

Regarding the comparison of a student gets the core concept but fails to use specific academic language, even the most famous books on writing emphasize the use of "simple language" (I'm thinking of On Writing Well by Zinsser specifically)... if they show that they understand the concept the "Lexile" level of their vocabulary is irrelevant.

I understand why you posted this, and I am in absolute agreement and appreciate your saying it.

In fact, I try to give myself the full weekend off as often as I can, or make it so that all my weekend "work" is something like rereading a book that I'm about to teach. Sometimes this means more grading at night on weekdays, but I'd rather do that so I can have total freedom for a couple of days.

For instance, this weekend the only work that I did is rereading Stephen King's On Writing. Your comment about pouring your life and soul into your students made me think of it, because of the part where he talks about the years he spent as an English teacher and how he felt like he had jumper cables attached to his brain all day. I think it's one of best explanations I've ever heard for why teaching is so exhausting.

My understanding is that most trades people like plumbers and carpenters receive certification (certificates) from two-year institutions, which technically are "colleges."

I don't advocate that everyone should go to a four-year college, but two-year colleges play a significant role in the training and certifying of trades people. Four-year colleges and two-year colleges serve different roles - but they both still represent education that occurs after high school. Without a significant reworking of our high school curriculum, it's in the best interest of students - even those interested in trade positions - to look into "college". The attainment of any degree, whether it's a bachelor's, associate, or certificate, also translates to greater income throughout one's lifetime.

I agree with you that trades people are too often looked down on. Mike Rowe has a great TED talk on America's 'war' on dirty, but essential jobs. I recommend it: http://www.ted.com/talks/mike_rowe_celebrates_dirty_jobs.html

More recently schools that take a High Expectations, High Support approach to minority students are proving to also reduce or eliminate that achievement gap.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/06/opinion/sunday/schools-that-work.html

This and other research signal that a significant factor in this achievement gap has to do with Perception and Bias ( Student, Educator, Caregiver ). And these effects can be reduced or eliminated in as little as one school year in an environment that corrects this.

You should watch this video about fractals in African villages and complex mathematics in general.

Actually, everyone should watch it. :)

Here is a Google Scholar search on papers and other research that cite Jane McGonigal's book. Maybe a decent starting point. Exploring the chain of citations using research search engines is not a bad way to get a toehold on the research. At least as a starting point.

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=3340059401834373182&as_sdt=40000005&sciodt=0,22&hl=en

I just went to his most recent videos and did not see any errors. In fact, he has an excellent video on why neg x neg equals positive link. The fact he had some errors in early videos is similar to errors in first printing of textbooks. It happens but are corrected in 2nd editions.

Lol wut? Kids aren't abstract thinkers? You can't possibly be invoking Piaget?

https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=3NnBVwclnXUC&oi=fnd&pg=PA267&dq=early+childhood+education+abstract+thinking&ots=K5kIv5T2pn&sig=FWFIEiRx50mKfL0Pj_-RMBCb9D4#v=onepage&q=early%20childhood%20education%20abst...

I am a math education researcher (MS, working on PhD) and have never heard of it. It does come up in a Google Scholar search, but not as the subject of investigation. Mostly it appears that people investigating other things have involved Mortensen Math trainers, or have investigated adapting curriculum to rural students using manipulatives and guided by a Mortensen Math curriculum.

Can you tell us something about it and how you came across it?

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=%22mortensen+math%22&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C22&as_sdtp=

I should add that there are very many curricula out there and they only stand out if they are very popular or notable. I have taken a curriculum course, but it focused on traditional curriculum vs. reform and research based curriculum. And also discussion of "mathematically correct" criticisms of research-based reforms.

WholeRen Education, LLC may technically be a "U.S. education company," but it reads like their clients are Chinese nationals seeking an education in the U.S. Chinese-American is more Chinese and American. Their site is only navigable if you can read Chinese. Their Linked in page gives this description.

>WholeRen integrates the services of academic application, college transfer services, academic emergency services, academic counseling, immersion classroom, landing services, Chinese-American cultural exchange and other services.

For the Vive, there's already The Body VR. Although something for ios/android is probably a better choice for the classroom. Another option would be something optimized for smart boards / digital projectors.

> Along with it you will have detailed lesson plans and student assignments to cover a full teaching lesson.

Unless you've got someone with a master's degree in science education or higher on your team don't even bother. We don't need yet another memorization-based lesson plan about how the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. That being said, NGSS standards should be your starting point to be compatible with the most classrooms.

> Is software licensing common in schools?

School budgets are pretty tight. Don't expect schools to buy a bunch of licenses. What you can expect is that a handful of teachers might get on Donors Choose or something to buy a class set of license keys for a really cheap mobile app.

Actually, TED brought them. Or Alexis Ohanian, if you want to look at it another way. http://www.ted.com/talks/alexis_ohanian_how_to_make_a_splash_in_social_media.html The students researched and noted how to do exactly what the Reddit rep suggested, and that was, in part, a chunk of how this project they envisioned got started. They combed the internet and found the websites with the most commentary, traffic, and willingness to discuss, and so they came here. The only "damage" they've done is a relentless unwillingness to be told to sit down, shut up, and go away by people who don't like eager, dauntless enthusiasm. They're not asking for anyone to be Yes Men. They are asking for respect in discussion - just as you are. Take a look at the person who broke it down and talked about parts of the video, and what they liked/didn't. That was received well enough, don't you think?

There is no cohesive message because they all think and act for themselves, just as you do. Are they at times tactless? Absolutely. Do they frequently act in a manner which is a-traditional for the website? Certainly. They're learning and adapting as they go, just as everyone else does. There's nothing irresponsible about that. They're more than a little rough around the ages, I'll grant you that - but that doesn't necessitate the kind of obnoxious behavior they've been getting.

1) It's not just "people who like similar interests" - there are flat-out racist housing policies that have shaped neighborhoods into the way they are. In many northern communities segregated schools weren't legislated, but housing policies kept neighborhoods segregated and schools were closed if they were in danger of integrating. There's a great episode on this here: https://player.fm/series/the-daily-1354914/friday-march-30-2018

2) The single best way of combating prejudice is spending time with a diverse group of people. Busing helps create diverse schools, even if the neighborhoods are homogeneous.

While I don't agree with the decision, I think everyone should chill out. People who have concealed handgun permits are probably not the ones you need to be afraid of......the crazy kid shooting his/her classmates probably didn't go through all of this before making the decision to lose it at school.

>Females face huge scrutiny, resentment, and criticism for being offered those scholarships.

you're right. females and minorities; look at the political backlash against affirmative action.

scholarships don't fix the academic impact of stereotype threat either, unless they're supplemented by other types of positive identity work.

and if women and minorities are underachieving in high school, they're probably not gunning for the STEM scholarships available to them anyway.

>The authors wrote, "The occurrence of bias in high school classrooms indicates that cultural expectations likely function to shape interactions and re-create inequality throughout the math pipeline that leads to high-status occupations in related fields of science and technology."

https://www.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5822aa90e4b0334571e0a30b/amp

This is a pretty good article that may help. My confidence is honestly pretty low as far as checks and balances because they will control all three branches of government. It has some good sentiment though.

Every now and then there have been lots of new technology added to the educational video platform where the traditional classrooms will be outdated. Now in future you could see more classes happening through online and could connect to students around the world, even in remote location. This helps in improving the literacy rate and will benefit students. At first it will be difficult for students but slowly they will adapt to it.

Thank you for admitting that they are conspiracies. Now that you have designated them as such, place them in their appropriate setting.

EDIT: You have, and I commend you for your commitment to authenticity. EDIT #2: More free documentaries

This video about the Kaput Center doesn't go into detail, but discusses a few of the projects I have been lucky enough to have worked on, the primary one being SimCalc. I post this mainly so that you can hear how Dr. Hegedus talks about the technology. https://vimeo.com/40085636

Among other things, the SimCalc software allows students to talk about functions in ways that are unusual for a math classroom. For example, they can contribute a function as an individual based on some mathematical criteria that is unique to each student, and then a classroom discussion about the function itself and the systemic variation (and invariance) can take place. Discussion about what changes and what stays constant are key in a number of important math concepts.

As important as the concepts are the types of interactions the students can now have, also important are the types of discussions they can have because of the artifacts the software allows them to create and then critique, or hold up as an example.

Yes, providing a suitable IDE exists for a given platform and given that the OS of the device has support for the given programming language then anyone can compose and execute code on such devices. For an example for the python language (an extremely common language in many academic circles second maybe only to java in terms of available libraries) there is the pythonista IDE for iOS. The way that computers work is that any high level code (human readable) can be translated to machine readable assembly code or machine code by the CPU for the CPU to carry out varying memory allocation commands. This applies to tablets as they are computers with an attached monitor in the form of a touch screen.

To reiterate, you could make a base 8 calculator on a iPad and run it on the same device, you could make a financial planner, or you could make a graphical shape generator, and much much more. Anything you can program you can run, given my two provisions at the top.

Sure!

She's struggling with reading; getting her to read is a laborious task! Math isn't a key point, nor is science. She does have quite a good grasp on coding however, and will actively reach for a computer to work on very basic coding. she often visits this website for coding stuff: https://scratch.mit.edu/

My idea is that during the formative, high school years, students need to be nudged a little bit into reading non-fiction. There are so many interesting non-fiction books, like the aforementioned, that many students will never pick up just because they are about economics or another subject that is stereotyped as "dry" or "dismal". I do not have a background in economics, for example, but reading books like Freakanomics (applying basic economic principles to real world situations), Rock, Paper, Scissors (game theory in everyday life) and Predictably Irrational (behavioral economics in everyday life) has compelled me to read more about the discipline in a formal context. Owing to the fact that I have so little time to cover each topic, motivating a little summer or winter reading might provide the catalyst for a student to learn more about a subject that might become his or her future major or even career.

This is an awesome sugesstion. I actually wanted to do a required reading program where I give the students a number of contemporary, best sellers on each topic and they choose 3 that interest them each semester to read and write a short report on. For example, in economics, I would recommend Freakanomics, Predictably Irrational, Confessions of an Economic Hitman, The return of Depression economics, among others. This will serve two purposes: 1) stimulate discussion of the basic ideas in interesting, real world applications and 2) promote a life of non fiction pleasure reading. Any sugesstions for other main stream, non technical books that have to do with these topics?

Thanks. I assumed the term was more generally understood. As you say, the name is kind of mis-leading.

For a very critical (but accurate IMO) view on neoliberal policy, check out The Shock Doctrine

I was a teacher, so perhaps we can relate. (And maybe we were both students once as well?)

As a teacher, I'm inherently going to be trying to find a way to balance teaching everyone and teaching each individual.

As the student, my concern is with learning.

And I should probably just say "young person" here instead of "student."

So, if I'm a young person, and my concern is learning.... then I should be utilizing any skills, tools, resources, etc. that may be available to me.

That's the approach that I take here, to help an individual that's reading the book to take ownership of their own educational destiny.

This isn't necessarily a book that's teaching a teacher how to incorporate self-directed education into their educational pedagogy. You may be interested in Joel Hammon's "The Teacher Liberation Handbook: How to Leave School and Create a Place Where You and Young People Can Thrive."

Now... your big question that I shouldn't ignore is 'how to fix the system if you could, or is that unrealistic?'.

To imply there's something that can "fix" it... is sorta to imply a miracle. Not because the system is so broken, just because there's no such thing as perfect. There's also the issues of 'one size fits all' that different things work for different people in different places... it's obviously complex. Self-directed education simply returns this power to the individual person to make decisions, and that runs counter to the experience of being a student in a school system where they have no decision-making power at all. I hate to seem evasive to solving the 'school problem' from the top-down, that's just not my approach. Rather than thinking, "how do I build a system to education 20-30 million kids" I'd rather approach it as "whats the best way for a young person to learn" and make that available to those 20-30 million.

Found an unbiased summary on Techcrunch:

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/14/knowmia-launch/

The goal here is to provide a centralized hub of educational video content, like a YouTube for education or Khan Academy, allowing users to search by specific keywords which will then surface more relevant content. The more tags that are added, the easier it will become for students to search for “The Gettysburg Address” and find a specific video lesson on Abraham Lincoln or the Civil War that includes content on their specific search criteria.

In practice, it’s somewhat reminiscent of TED’s new education platform, which was created to allow teachers and educators to create unique lesson plans around its killer video content. TED has the benefit of calling on its repository of popular videos made by the world’s experts on a variety of subjects.

In comparison, Knowmia would seem to be the more mainstream version (both for better and worse), although with its so-called “Editorial Board” of teachers, it may well be able to prevent lower quality content from slipping through the cracks — one of the potential dangers of a giant, crowdsourced video repository — especially one that targets education. The potential for misinformation in the crowdsourced model is obviously something Wikipedia, for one, knows a thing or two about.

The review is interesting. I'd love to hear his progress so far, differentiation, and user acquisition strategy. There are a few other people known people in this space. Would your friend be interested in doing an AMA? I'd like to add him to a queue for Fall.

This kickstarter program is off to a great start (almost $30G so far)! Getting 3D printers into schools is going to be the next big thing, IMO. Like getting computers back in the 80s only without having to learn BASIC on a TRS80.

I bought this … I love it

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To balance the evidence that gamification isn't really appropriate for education (or anything else really), there is also a lot of evidence that play in general, and play-based learning in particular is incredibly valuable.

Instead of digging up all these great sources, instead, I'll just post a link to a presentation I made for an Adolescent Development class I took last semester in my credentialing program. I wasn't able to use half the citations I found just because of time and organization, but what's there is pretty great. link

Some highlights are that:

Imaginative play builds executive function.

Playing cooperative games makes people more cooperative in real life (but playing competitive/violent games does not make people more competitive/violent. I found a few studies showing how violent video games can be an effective treatment for military PTSD.)

People like each other more after playing games together - even if they lost badly.

Extrinsic motivation is addictive and degrades people's ability to be intrinsically motivated.

People in general, but children in particular are intrinsically motivated to learn.

>I’m interested in Spanish-speaking authors, women authors, and those authors whose voices are not commonly studied.

With this particular, I highly recommend Peter Joseph's <em>The New Human Rights Movement</em>. Free sample reading here. Some of my seniors asked about it on their own and got really into reading it on their own, but I do think that any high school student willing to learn and with an open mind can and should delve into this book. It's the type of book that makes one question things very few people stop and notice and question, so if you think that may pique their interest, I'd give it a shot. Even if not for your students, it's a great read for yourself and anyone out there who's willing to question the status quo and who wants to work towards making the world a place where everyone can live well.

There’s a lot here, and I think the best I can do for you is offer you the source of my answers instead of trying to poorly translate them myself.

I think nearly everything you’re curious and concerned about is addressed in Dan Willinghams book, one of the best books about learning I’ve ever read: https://www.amazon.com/Why-Dont-Students-Like-School/dp/047059196X

That’s kind of like saying you’re good at driving a car so you want to build one from scratch.
Teachers go to school for years to learn this. The science behind how kids learn to read is complex. It takes explicit instruction of phonics, building phonemic awareness skills, and connecting it to orthography (writing). Not so simple.
You can try this book as a starting point: https://www.amazon.ca/Teach-Your-Child-Read-Lessons/dp/0671631985

Reading (like most things in education) became extremely political. It was actually conservatives who pushed for science of reading approaches (backed by science/data) and liberal/progressive educators that were pushing balanced literacy.

HIGHLY recommend Natalie Wexler's The Knowledge Gap.

"A concise guide to mixed methods research" is the name of the book. It was pretty decent IIRC, but that was like 5 years ago. Best luck to your wife! Here's the newest edition. Honestly, everything I've seen from Creswell has been really good for the mixed methods world.

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> this is the food the Russian army are eating

Actually this is what they are eating:

https://www.amazon.com/IRPRUS-Military-Russian-kilogramm-emergency/dp/B01N215JJO

I seriously doubt your program is teaching you to make this.

Test scores. TEST SCORES? If you believe that an education consists of passing tests, maybe you should get out of the education discussion.

Here - learn something today. Don't worry, there won't be a test.

First of all, I think it's awesome that you're taking the time to do this, I love learning history and I think of it as a collection of stories. We can prove some things about them, but a lot of times they're incomplete, and hopefully more people will complete them. For example, I went to a land grant university in Texas, and the legislation to make these places was written by a former slave named Matthew Gaines, but there's a lot about him we've lost or can't verify at the moment.

To answer your question, here's a list of free history courses from different universities and colleges: http://www.openculture.com/history_free_courses

Best of luck!

I agree they're not disreputable and the comment above is just name-calling, but NPR is funded by Gates. Refer to https://current.org/2014/09/gates-funding-spurs-doubts-over-pubmedias-impartiality-in-education-reporting/?wallit_nosession=1 or even NPR themselves at https://www.npr.org/about-npr/251041312/npr-deepens-coverage-expands-listener-experience-with-17-million-in-grants.

Sure, you kind of have to dig, but they are there. Upwork.com, Freelancer, Flexjobs, ProBlogger, and freelancewritinggigs.com . Type in searches like "curriculum writer" or similar.

interesting research abstract i stumbled across: apparently stereotype threat worked against white males when a unfavorable comparison to Asians was invoked, especially for "individuals who highly identified with the [mathematics] domain."

Past Continuous Hindi through Telugu | Hindi Grammar

Past Continuous Hindi through Telugu

For Academic and Competitive Examinations– అన్ని తరగతుల పరీక్షలకు – అన్ని పోటీ పరీక్షలకు – తెలుగు వివరణతో – హిందీ వ్యాకరణము

Past Continuous Tense : Past Continuous is used to talk about actions going on at sometime in the past .

గతంలో ( అప్పుడు / ఎప్పుడో ) ఒక పని జరుగుతూ ఉన్న విషయాన్ని Past continuous తెలియజేస్తుంది . or గతంలో ఒక నిర్ణీత సమయానికి జరుగుతూ ఉన్నపనిని Past continuous తెలియజేస్తుంది .

నిన్న ఈ టైం కి నేను సినిమా చూస్తూ ఉన్నాను . . నిన్న ఈ టైం కి సినిమా చూడడం అనే క్రియను కొనసాగిస్తూ ఉన్నారు .
అందువల్ల ఆ క్రియను Past Continuous Tense లో తీసుకోవడం జరుగుతుంది .

Note : నేను అంటే male గా భావించినప్పుడు रहा था రావాలి . నేను అంటే female గా భావించినప్పుడు रही थी రావాలి .

Rule : मैं + Verb + रहा था / रही थी

1. Male: నేను అదుపుచేస్తున్నాను= मैं नियंत्रितकर रहा था

Female : నేను అదుపుచేస్తున్నాను= मैं नियंत्रितकर रही थी

2. Male: నేను అధ్యక్షతవహిస్తాను = मैं अध्यक्षताकर रहा था

Female : నేను అధ్యక్షతవహిస్తాను = मैं अध्यक्षताकर रही थी

Past Continuous Hindi through Telugu | Hindi Grammar

Past Continuous Hindi through Telugu

For Academic and Competitive Examinations– అన్ని తరగతుల పరీక్షలకు – అన్ని పోటీ పరీక్షలకు – తెలుగు వివరణతో – హిందీ వ్యాకరణము .

Past Continuous Tense : Past Continuous is used to talk about actions going on at sometime in the past .

గతంలో ( అప్పుడు / ఎప్పుడో ) ఒక పని జరుగుతూ ఉన్న విషయాన్ని Past continuous తెలియజేస్తుంది . or గతంలో ఒక నిర్ణీత సమయానికి జరుగుతూ ఉన్నపనిని Past continuous తెలియజేస్తుంది .

నిన్న ఈ టైం కి నేను సినిమా చూస్తూ ఉన్నాను . . నిన్న ఈ టైం కి సినిమా చూడడం అనే క్రియను కొనసాగిస్తూ ఉన్నారు .
అందువల్ల ఆ క్రియను Past Continuous Tense లో తీసుకోవడం జరుగుతుంది .

Note : నేను అంటే male గా భావించినప్పుడు रहा था రావాలి . నేను అంటే female గా భావించినప్పుడు रही थी రావాలి .

Rule : मैं + Verb + रहा था / रही थी

1. Male: నేను అదుపుచేస్తున్నాను= मैं नियंत्रितकर रहा था

Female : నేను అదుపుచేస్తున్నాను= मैं नियंत्रितकर रही थी

2. Male: నేను అధ్యక్షతవహిస్తాను = मैं अध्यक्षताकर रहा था

Female : నేను అధ్యక్షతవహిస్తాను = मैं अध्यक्षताकर रही थी

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cnelloaamakagcfmelacfigacddnmmfd

Took me 10s to find that. It does have crappy reviews though.

Or use Endnote or Mendeley or one of the 500 programs out there. Zotero is just what I happen to use.

Good advice! Here are a few more I have learned the hard way:

1 - Get connected with other people

Just like having a buddy to work out with helps keep you from skipping, finding a study group can make or break your grade. They don't have to be students in your class, some of the greatest study partners I have are just fellow engineers who want someone to bounce ideas off.

2 - Teach it

I tutor math and chemistry for a few extra bucks at my campus, and I can tell you - I've never learned basic Trig and Gen Chem so well! It turns out teaching things is very, very effective in helping you learn it too. Teach your material to your girlfriend, wife, brother, mother, cat or steering wheel. (If my steering wheel could only hold a pencil, I swear it could pass a Calc exam)

3 - Get a system and stick to it

Doesn't matter what it is, make it a routine. I have a ton of post-its and 3-ring binders left over from an office job, so I use them to get organized. It's not important WHAT the system is, just make sure you HAVE one. When you have a ream of loose paper just shuffling around in a backpack, there's no way you can keep anything straight.

4 - Get off Reddit and get to work!

LeechBlock is super helpful in making sure this happens.

https://scratch.mit.edu/

It's a great resource for kids of all ages with no or little coding experience .

Code.org for kids that need a bigger challenge.

Both sites have tons of resources and lesson plans.

Gamemaker has some good tutorials for making games.

Unity has a high end platform that is accessible to all ages. Offers lots of tutorials.

All are free to students and teachers.

Here's the link to the GoogleDoc of it. Of course, all of my formatting was lost, but you'll get the idea. :) Hope it helps!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1620lMJLgoCWBujdU27iQTPCa6k09wAzJz9_0ddC7W80/edit

> Open Office is the popular offline substitute

I would recommend LibreOffice rather than OpenOffice.

A snippet about LibreOffice from Wikipedia:

> LibreOffice (/ˈliːbrə/)[a] is a free and open-source office productivity software suite, a project of The Document Foundation (TDF). It was forked in 2010 from OpenOffice.org, an open-sourced version of the earlier StarOffice. The LibreOffice suite consists of programs for word processing, creating and editing of spreadsheets, slideshows, diagrams and drawings, working with databases, and composing mathematical formulae. It is available in 115 languages.[10] Along with personal use editions, TDF also offers enterprise-focused editions of LibreOffice.[13]

> As its native file format to save documents for all of its applications, LibreOffice uses the Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF), or OpenDocument, an international standard developed jointly by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). LibreOffice also supports the file formats of most other major office suites, including Microsoft Office, through a variety of import and export filters.[14][15]

> LibreOffice is available for a variety of computing platforms, with official support for Microsoft Windows, macOS and Linux[4] and community builds for many other platforms. It is also available as an online office suite called LibreOffice Online,[16][17] which includes the applications Writer, Calc and Impress. LibreOffice is the default office suite of most popular Linux distributions.[18][19][20][21] It is the most actively developed free and open-source office suite, with approximately 50 times the development activity of Apache OpenOffice, the other major descendant of OpenOffice.org.[22]

Go to your library and pick up The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson, in addition to the book by Gavin Francis recommended by another. When you're just starting out, it's good to begin with books written in a more conversational tone, rather than something dry and technical.

Yup. Consult with local FN people on how to proceed. Try googling “my town” + reservation, or Native Friendship centre if you’re in Canada. The people there will have better ideas for you. I also suggest book recommendation

It has detailed lesson plans for every grade.

Khan Acadamy produces free online lectures for k-php grade levels covering nearly any subject. Some teachers are now assigning these lectures as homework and spending in-class time working individually practising the problems. The result is the students still get the theory and the teacher spends time wondering around helping each student with their specific learning problems.

Utter tosh. Europe and America have been exceedingly welcoming of immigrants. Try being a religious minority in the Muslim world and you might just gain some perspective of what "discrimination" really means! Meanwhile, if "entrenching racism" is so endemic in the UK, why do Hindus out-earn whites?

https://books.google.com/books?id=geChAgAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA161&amp;lpg=PA161&amp;dq=UK,+Hindus+out+earn+whites&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=ZJnOz9rHdq&amp;sig=GXtph1loy-1H2aaOnJZmOHibFDA&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=4wjqVIm8IJGHNriagvgO&amp;ved=0CEoQ6AEwBg#v=o...

What's up? lemme know, cuz I need all the preparation I can get to properly understand how to help kids as much as possible.

I'm going to bed though, it's 11.45 midnight, got work tomorrow, but I hope I can discuss the concerns at some point because teaching & teaching theory & things is something teachers need to discuss more. https://www.coursera.org/course/teach5 is very insightful stuff.

I just created my first site. All worksheets are free there is a lot of California Treasures materials there, plus math and other materials. I am using Google sites and while it's fairly easy to create a site or page it's a little quirky.

https://sites.google.com/site/elementaryworksheets/

Hey there, this paper might be helpful for you--https://www.academia.edu/28033803/Deaf_Digital_Learning_Platforms_DDLPs_and_Online_Teaching_and_Learning_Multimodality_as_Lens_for_Understanding_Deaf_Student_Communication_Practices_in_Higher_Education

Fortunately, my wife works in a much more respected field than either teaching or writing.

Thanks for asking about the book!

Minimally Effective: (or the Teacher's Catch) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1733173005/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_1BWDRNY2X4SPZ7CHM72K

This appears to be a student's project, intended for college students.

Link

Note: TEFL teacher here with only one year of experience, so take everything I write with a grain of salt. Some ideas:

I would start with creating a basic philosophy, and structuring everything around it. What is your goal? What are your primary means of accomplishing it? How do you want your students to learn? What are your students' goals?

I recommend all of Ken Robinson's TED talks. (google video query for the lazy)

Consider whether or not you will be asked to prepare students for TOEFL or another ESL test. If you are, certainly don't ignore it, since tests are (like it or not) important. However, don't let this stop you from finding countless ways to make the learning practical beyond the test.

Finally, if you have unlimited resources, why not hire somebody who's been in the TEFL game for a long time? If not as a full time employee, why not as a consultant? Obvious pros/cons, but just something to consider.

Good luck!

Good attempt at an AMA, sorry I missed it.

BTW, looks like you were already familiar with Khan's youtube lessons, but I'd strongly urge you to look at recent (like a month ago) TED video on it because it talks a lot more about the tools BEYOND the youtubes that they are developing.

Though I understand it's value/purpose, part of me really DIS-likes the detailed level of the "tracking" -- at least in the context of a mandatory public school -- but I can see where my "problems" with it would almost entirely go away if it were used in the context of a Sudbury-style "free" school system (where there wouldn't be a "push-push-push" emphasis on the tracking) but rather where it would be more like a private medical history/journal that the student could CHOOSE to share in order to obtain additional help/assistance/guidance.

>ouch. Wow, that really makes my intentions sound horrible.

Yeah... I didn't think that that was what you really intended, but it could (alas) easily end up BEING that.

>My schooling and parenting philosophy may sound crazy, but for an entirely different reason.

I'm probably one of the few who would actually find your philosophy NOT crazy (at all). Indeed, I have always been (even when I was enduring my own school incarceration) a profound advocate of student-driven education (and I think one of the main reason the current model fails is because it is an artificially imposed system that is really more about indoctrination and obedience, than it is about education).

>edit: In fact we're one year into running a school that operates on this exact principle, very much in the image of sudbury valley and other democratic schools.

Now THAT, I would agree with and get behind 100%. (Mind if I PM you on your school?)

But with the caveat that what I do NOT and cannot agree with is:

1) requiring kids to attend schools (i.e. the mandatory attendance laws are unconstitutional in my opinion).

2) requiring everyone else to pay for it through taxes.

BTW, have you seen the Khan Academy guy's recent TED talk? -- REALLY good stuff (and I would think kids & tutors in a Sudbury/democratic style school would find their tools very useful).

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Richard_Olson/publication/276854663_Validity_of_large-scale_reading_tests_A_phenotypic_and_behaviour-genetic_analysis/links/55d35ed008ae0a3417226630.pdf?inViewer=0&amp;pdfJsDownload=0&amp;origin=publication_detail

So I am working off languages I have studied in the past. I teach Physics and Math but I love languages so during college and grad school I took German and Japanese. I also tutor a girl in Japanese right now and am going to try to start a language club next year for Japanese.

With that in mind, there are a ton of resources online. There are some best practices you can follow.

1. Look for good self-study textbooks for cheap (Genki 1 is good for Japanese!)

2. Find a website to help you with grammar / vocabulary (www.jisho.org for vocab and Tae Kim's Guide to Japanese for grammar)

3. Find a way to practice writing and reading (I recommend finding translations of Harry Potter if you like the story, or the Hobbit). Children's books are also good, but I get bored. Find a simple novel you like and look for a translation.

4. For writing practice the website Lang 8 is pretty good for interacting with native speakers. You help with their English by correcting their sentences, and they will help you! You get out what you put in.

5. Find a way to learn most common words. I use a deck from the program Anki (shared decks are online and easy to find). Don't over study vocab! Read more instead!

6. If you can, look into Duolingo. Lots of free courses that are fairly well structured, there is a phone app as well for free! https://www.duolingo.com/

PM me any questions you have.

Statistics actually is a really important subject, and the basics are surprisingly easy, so next time you feel like leveling up, I hear that these videos are good.

This is an unsafe website. &quot;Micro-work site selling academic forgery.&quot; Calling all mods! Calling all mods! Do your job please!

Yeah, it is not a safe site. Is edubirdie.com safe? Reviews &amp; Ratings. I wonder where the upvotes are coming from.

This book was really fabulous for teaching my kids to read when they were younger than that. It tells you exactly what to say, starts with a font that makes it easy for kids to distinguish similar letters, and introduces letters a few at a time with writing. By the end, they can read page long stories and are ready for easy readers. The only thing you need besides the book is a pad of paper with printing guidelines.

https://www.amazon.com/Teach-Your-Child-Read-Lessons/dp/0671631985/

I don’t know how it would work for an 8 year old, but the scripted nature of the lessons could work well to soothe any anxieties.

Looking for alternatives to Google Classroom? Tons of people want Learning Management System (LMS) software. What's difficult is finding out whether or not the software you choose is right for you.

1-Canvas

2- Blackboard Learn

3- Moodle

4-Schoology

and many more

Reference from- https://www.g2.com/products/google-classroom/competitors/alternatives

>If you have a Google Apps for Business or Education account, you have the option to disable/hide advertisements for users in your account. If you have multiple domains associated with your Google Apps account, the setting applies to all domains. It is not possible to hide ads for only a subset of your users.

>To hide all advertisements:

>Log in to the Google Apps administrator control panel. The URL is https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/primary-domain-name, where primary-domain-name is the domain name you used to sign up for Google Apps.

>Click Domain settings.

>Check the box next to Hide all advertisements for this domain.

>Click Save changes. To learn more about advertisements in Gmail, please visit the Gmail Help Center.

I also don't know what you mean by "under the age Google should be advertising to." What age is appropriate for advertisement?

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>I wonder what's changed about college culture that's made such a thing less possible these days.

Well first of all it became trendy for adults to be liberal. I don't mean that as an insult, it's just true. Probably has to do with Boomers hitting their late career stage and getting into positions of power.

Secondly, schools are operated much more like businesses now. The Customer Is Always Right. Which is to say that if students complain, the school will not capitulate to them especially in an era where "tradition" more or less has no meaning inside schools now.

I hate to come off as a reactionary, but education has changed. You entered UCB before the current tech boom and only just after the NCLB was being implemented. Today, UCB is much larger due to the massive growth in the bay area, and accordingly they don't tolerate "troublemakers" both anarchist students and rightwing lectures, because it takes up their valuable time.

Oh, and in the case of the UC system Fienstien's husband openly told the UC President to enforce policy in a certain way or have their funding cut.

https://theintercept.com/2015/09/25/dianne-feinstein-husband-threaten-univ-calif-demanding-ban-excessive-israel-criticism/

also:

http://alexandercoward.com/BlowingTheWhistleOnUCBerkeleyMathematics.html

I hate to rant, but colleges are businesses now and are focused on money, justifiably or not, and not actual learning. Extreme PC people complain and will bully the school in any way possible, including calling their assemblymen and complaining to them. And all of this is now seen as acceptable, because you can't say bad things anymore apparently.

I purchased a java programming textbook from here. about 50 dollars cheaper than in the states. I am not sure about math textbooks. On the cover of the text it says "International Edition" but they take an Xacto knife and cut that part from the textbook and ship it from the UK. Shipping costs more but when all costs considered it's cheaper overall. you can also try googleing isbn numbers and adding the word "pdf" in the search or "torrent" just google internation edition textbooks and see what happens, thats how i did it.

I'm using Susan Blackmore's talk on memes for my freshman comp course that's geared toward fairy tales and folklore. We're going to discuss these tales as memes and what their reproduction time and time again means to us as, well, "meme machines." http://www.ted.com/talks/susan_blackmore_on_memes_and_temes.html

This talk (Barry Schwartz) http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_our_loss_of_wisdom.html

Was used for a high school class to talk about the myths of rules and incentives-- bureaucracy vs. intrinsic motivation, and particularly about the concept of 'wiseness.' Doing things outside of or greater than the rules/expectations.

I showed this to my 7th graders. I thought they would get a kick out of some of it- but the accent threw them off. Maybe better for 8th grade and HS. http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/benjamin_zander_on_music_and_passion.html